Rosa Parks’s official arrest report

Here’s a piece of history: the arrest report from Montgomery, Ala.,
police for Rosa Parks on Dec. 1, 1955, the day she rode a Montgomery
city bus and refused to get up and move to the back of the bus so a
white man could take her seat, as she was expected to in that era of
segregation. She was arrested, and in the process, helped launch a new
era in the American civil rights movement.

Parks was a seamstress in Alabama and a civil rights activist, but
she said after the incident that she had not pre-planned it. She was
convicted of violating a law mandating segregation on city buses and
fined. She appealed as civil rights activists organized a boycott of
Montgomery buses — coordinated by the Montgomery Improvement Association
of which a 26-year-old minister named Martin Luther King Jr. was
president — that lasted 13 months. It ended when the Supreme Court ruled
that it was unconstitutional to require segregation on public buses....